News - Centre for Corpus ResearchNews from the Centre of Corpus ResearchContensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.ukhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/index.aspx?SyndicationType=22016-12-10T01:36:40ZPaul Thompson invited speaker at the University of StirlingAlberto GuglielmiPaul Thompson is an invited speaker at a one day British Academy funded event on the theme 'Researching, teaching and learning English for Academic Purposes (EAP): Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics (CL)'2016-12-09T16:26:00Z2016-12-09T16:07:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2016/thompson-invited-speaker-stirling.aspxMichaela Mahlberg at the Hay FestivalAlberto GuglielmiProfessor Michaela Mahlberg, interviewed at the Hay Festival, talks about Corpus Linguistics as a method of quickly surveying word usage in texts and illustrates how we can use it to analyse Dickens.2016-11-29T12:45:00Z2016-11-29T12:36:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2016/mahlberg-hay-festival.aspxPaul Thompson to give a lecture and seminar in PragueAlberto GuglielmiPaul Thompson is in Prague this week (1-3 November) to give a lecture and seminar as an invited speaker on a funded project 'Using Language Corpora: An Introduction', run by Dr Marketa Mala.2016-11-02T10:46:00Z2016-11-02T10:22:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2016/thompson-lecture-seminar-prague.aspxDr Maristella Gatto visiting the Centre for Corpus ResearchAlberto GuglielmiDr Maristella Gatto, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Bari (Italy), will be visiting CCR from 31 October to 4 November 2016.2016-10-31T10:30:00Z2016-10-31T15:31:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2016/maristella-gatto-visiting-ccr.aspxLanguage for Specific Purposes conferenceAlberto GuglielmiPaul T﻿hompson has been invited to give a plenary lecture at the Language for Specific Purposes conference (LSP2017) in Bergen on 28-30 June 2017.2016-10-06T09:49:00Z2016-10-06T09:26:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/news/2016/language-for-specific-purposes-conference.aspxThe 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference - Call for papers, posters and panelsAlberto GuglielmiThe 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference will take place in the week of 24 - 28 July 2017 at the University of Birmingham.2016-09-30T16:36:00Z2016-10-31T12:28:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2016/cl2017-call-for-papers.aspxUsing corpus-based methods to support multidisciplinary researchAlberto GuglielmiPaul Thompson is an invited speaker at a one-day seminar on 'Using corpus-based methods to support multidisciplinary research' at the University of Hertfordfshire on Monday 27 June.2016-06-27T10:56:00Z2016-06-27T10:31:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/news/2016/thompson-seminar-hertfordfshire.aspxSinclair Lecture 2016William FallowsThe 11th Sinclair Lecture was delivered by Professor Michaela Mah﻿lberg, Chair in Corpus Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Corpus Research.2016-06-22T12:04:00Z2016-06-22T11:42:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2016/sinclair-lecture-2016.aspxSinclair Lecture 2016Alberto GuglielmiProfessor Michaela Mahlberg, Chair in Corpus Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Corpus Research, will deliver the annual Sinclair Lecture on Monday 20 June 2016.2016-06-09T14:05:00Z2016-06-09T13:50:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/2016/sinclair-lecture-2016.aspxExploring corpus-attested patterns in Dickens's fictionAlberto GuglielmiMichaela Mahlberg and Gareth Carrol will be speaking at the CASS Corpus Data and Psycholinguistics Seminar at the University of Lancaster.2016-05-17T10:33:00Z2016-05-17T10:44:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2016/mahlberg-carrol-cass-corpus-data-psycholinguistics-seminar.aspxNew research-focussed positions in the Department of English Language and Applied LinguisticsAlberto GuglielmiThis is part of a broader initiative on the part of the university to recruit high level research-focussed staff in order to build its international research reputation.2016-03-31T13:57:00Z2016-03-31T13:49:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/news/2016/new-research-focussed-positions.aspxThe European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT) is available onlineAlberto GuglielmiWe are very pleased to announce that the first part of the European Corpus of Academic Talk (EuroCoAT) can be searched by registered users via the internet.2016-03-08T11:20:00Z2016-03-10T09:49:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2016/eurocoat-online.aspxCentre for Corpus Research travels to Hong KongAlberto GuglielmiDr Paul Thompson is an invited plenary speaker at the International Conference on Corpus Linguistics and Technology Advancement (CoLTA 2015) in Hong Kong2015-12-04T12:04:00Z2015-12-04T11:37:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2015/centre-travels-hong-kong.aspxCorpora, Constructions, Collaboration: Providing new insights into the use and acquisition of verb patterns in EnglishVideo recording of the 10th annual Sinclair Lecture delivered by Professor Ute Römer (Georgia State University, USA).2015-11-18T10:12:00Z2015-12-28T11:54:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/news/2015/sinclair-lecture-video.aspxInForm Conference 2015Alberto GuglielmiOn Saturday 11 July 2015, Dr Paul Thompson will give an invited plenary address at the InForm Conference, at the University of Reading.2015-07-07T15:15:00Z2015-07-07T14:54:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/news/2015/thompson-inform-conference-2015.aspxCentre for Corpus Research special seminarThe Centre for Corpus Research will host a special se﻿minar on Wednesday 18 March with two invited speakers.2015-03-11T10:40:00Z2015-12-24T20:22:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2015/special-seminar.aspxDeveloping Corpus Linguistics in South AsiaPaul Thompson, Akira Murakamiand Dominik Vajnwill travel to Islamabad, Pakistan to participate in a workshop (2-4 March).2015-02-04T14:31:00Z2015-06-07T17:48:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2015/developing-corpus-linguistics-workshop.aspxThe contexts and cultures of interdisciplinary research discourseSusan Hunston has been invited as a plenary speaker at ICAME 35, University of Nottingham, 30 April to 4 May.2014-04-15T17:04:00Z2015-06-12T06:53:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2014/hunston-icame-nottingham.aspxApply for the Midlands3Cities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership410 PhD studentships available for a 9 January 2014 deadline.2013-12-17T16:44:00Z2015-06-11T15:35:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/calgs/scholarships/ahrc-application-midlands3cities.aspxVisit of corpus researcher from TokyoTakehiko Maruyama from the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics visited the Centre for Corpus Research.2013-08-16T15:03:00Z2015-06-07T17:47:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2013/maruyama-visit.aspx2013 Corpus Linguistics conferenceSeveral members of the English Language and Applied Linguistics division presented their research in workshops, posters and papers at the University of Lancaster.2013-07-29T10:14:00Z2015-06-12T06:25:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/corpus-linguistics-conference.aspxInvestigating Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: the case of Global Environmental ChangePaul Thompson and Susan Hunston have been successful in their application to the ESRC for funding for this two year research project on interdisciplinary discourse.2013-05-13T10:47:00Z2015-06-12T06:29:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/global-environmental-change.aspxPrimed for Violence? A corpus analysis of jihadist discourseProfessor Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) delivered the annual John Sinclair Lecture [streaming video].2013-05-10T14:55:00Z2015-06-12T06:44:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/tony-mcenery.aspxPeople, Products, Pests and Pets: the discursive representation of animalsA major new research collaboration between Professor Guy Cook, from the Department of Education & Professional Studies, King's College London and Dr Alison Sealey at the University of Birmingham.2013-04-03T20:30:00Z2015-06-12T06:34:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/leverhulme-sealey.aspxVisit to Urbana-ChampaignPaul Thompson will visit the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to discuss possible research collaboration.2013-03-22T18:26:00Z2015-06-07T17:47:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2013/uiuc.aspxVisit to LimerickPaul Thompson took part in a one day colloquium at the University of Limerick.2013-03-22T18:18:00Z2015-06-07T17:46:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2013/corpus-limerick.aspxCorpus Linguistics awards for alumniProfessor Laurence Anthony and Dr Yasunori Nishina recognised by Japan Association of English Corpus Studies.2013-01-07T19:47:00Z2015-06-12T12:02:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/news/2013/jaecs-alumni.aspxTamkang International Conference on Second Language WritingPaul Thompson is an invited plenary speaker at Tamkang University, Taiwan.2012-04-13T14:06:00Z2015-06-07T17:46:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/Tamkang.aspxOxford TalkPaul Thompson gave an invited talk at the Department of Education, Oxford University, on 27th February 20122012-02-29T16:37:00Z2015-06-07T17:45:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/oxford-talk.aspxResearching language and language use through corporaPaul Thompson visit to the British University in Dubai.2012-01-11T10:08:00Z2015-06-07T17:44:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/ccr-dubai.aspxSpanish Association of Corpus LinguisticsPaul Thompson will be an invited plenary speaker at the International Meeting of the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (Asociación Española de LINgüística de COrpus), to be held in Jaén 22-24 March 2012.2012-01-05T17:56:00Z2015-06-07T17:44:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/cilc12.aspxSummer/Winter SchoolAnnouncement of the University of Birmingham's first Birmingham/Melbourne Summer/Winter School in Applied Linguistics, 2-13 July 2012.2012-01-05T17:56:00Z2015-06-07T17:46:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/SummerWinter-School.aspxChinese lecture tourWolfgang Teubert visiting Anyang, Beijing, Xinxiang and Luoyang.2011-11-29T13:29:00Z2015-06-12T05:48:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chinese-lecture-tour.aspxJACET Kansai chapter conference and the Japan Association for English Corpus LinguisticsSpeaking invites for Susan Hunston.2011-11-29T13:17:00Z2015-06-12T05:52:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jacet.aspxThe CARE Fellowship ProgrammeDeadline for applications - 6 January 20122011-11-24T13:27:00Z2015-06-02T21:23:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/care/news/2011/fellowship.aspxThe Language of Scientific DiscoveryCongratulations to Garry Plappert who successfully defended his PhD thesis in October 2011.2011-11-15T18:23:00Z2015-06-12T05:51:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/garry-plappert.aspxCLAVIER Conference in Modena, ItalyPaul Thompson speaking in a roundtable discussion.2011-08-11T16:12:00Z2015-06-07T17:40:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2011/clavier-modena.aspxCorpus Linguistics Conference 2011Video interviews from the first day of the conference.2011-07-31T05:15:00Z2015-06-07T17:41:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2011/conference-2011-video.aspxPhD viva successMadame System AdministratorGena Bennett (supervised by Susan Hunston and Oliver Mason) passed her PhD viva with minor corrections on 23rd May.2011-05-31T17:21:00Z2015-09-24T12:54:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2011/phd-viva-success.aspxCARE and the Centre for Corpus Research joint eventCARE and the Centre for Corpus Research will hold a joint event on 11th July.2011-05-31T16:25:00Z2015-06-07T17:42:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2011/joint-event-july.aspxPaul Thompson to give talks in TaiwanPaul Thompson will be in Taiwan from the 5th to the 12th June, attending a conference and also giving talks at National Cheng Chi University and National Chung Cheng University.2011-05-31T16:25:00Z2015-06-07T17:43:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2011/thomposn-in-taiwan.aspxCorpus Linguistics ConferenceMadame System AdministratorThe latest information on the forthcoming Corpus Linguistics Conference.2011-05-31T16:25:00Z2015-09-24T12:54:00Zhttp://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2011/corpus-linguistics-conference.aspx